Purge of the Chapel (Turn 1)

The Chapel of the Inquisition in Hive Tempestus has been the site of recent daemonic activity. The Inquisition has sent an armoured force of their 609th IST to investigate. Lead by Primaris Psyker Artios and Commissar Lord Owen, they approach the site.

Almost immediately a tear in reality begins spilling daemons directly into the chapel. Minions of both Tzeench and Slaanesh pour into the sacred building.
Upon their entry, they use sorcerous blasts to down Artois' valkrie...

But it is ministered to by Techpriest Phoboes. The Inquisitorial Shock Troops begin to unleash Imperial wrath, their guns send many back to hell.

A really strange coincedence

A friend had come over, he does not play tabletop games, but he had some models he had found a long time ago. He brought them over to give away, when I noticed something really odd. There were some Sisters of Battle, an Immolator and a small group of militia (yes the old skool ones). After some close inspection (and a deep delve into my fragmented memory), I recognized these girls. They were the first group of sisters I started to collect 15 years ago! They had gone mysteriously missing from my self and I thought them lost to the warp. My friend had found them years ago, before I knew him, while cleaning an empty house at work and held on to them. Granted there are many mitlitia missing, but talk about strange! Thanks to the Emperor for keeping my girls safe in the warp, soon they will be added into the convent they started years ago...

Things to come?

There has been an offer I am seriously thinking about; a small swarm of tyranids. Although I usually fight for the side of order (which is very against my personal alignment, but oh well) but it might be time for a little change. I still have a little time to think on this project and decide if I really "need" a new army, so here is the plan;
-3,000 point goal.
-As many tyranid warriors as possible.
-Nurgle infestation (as in the splinter fleet has a nasty cold/flu)

Comments?

Old and New

Here are some good pics of Aries, my atlas. Finished for a while now, I just thought I would share.
Tow truck with a flamethrower...
These four Inquisitorial servants are a "giftmini" project. Giftminis are models I am converting and painting for an art trade between friends. These will go to Graham Page to bolster his radical inquisitor's retinue.
The big-headed psyker was inspired by Dave Taylor's "creepy little guys" He was so much fun I am thinking of making myself a psyker battle squad simular to him.
Servo-skulls are so easy to make I really should make more. It just takes a look through the bottom of a bitz box, some wire, and a skull.
I figured someone had to carry something heavy, so why not a brass box with a massive skull? I love the Inquisition!

Cheers!
Ricalope.

From the Paint table.

It wasn't cloudy yesterday, which meant I was a-primin'. Here is a shot of the avatar, his flames are basically done (only one last layer, the darkest, at the ends) and his first wash. I keep thinking "propane and propane accessories" and I don't know why.

In the lair a war is brewing (as usual). A high ground mission from Cities of Death. It seems the 609th have some daemon-slaying to do (will update next turn).

The Inquisitorial Henchmen I am making for Graham have been primed and basecoated. I am devising a red/grey/purple colour scheme to mark them as in the employ of a radical Inq.
And here is a sneaky look at the Samalander's table. Daemon-chicks on cats are hot.

Well that seems to be it for now, look again in a couple of days...
Ricalope

Atlas Recovery Tank and Beerwagon

Here we have the tank, built standard (alfa pattern front hull). Housings from the basilisk's earthshaker form the base for the crane.
Extended with plasicard and sprue, rollers (tank wheels) stabilize the crane (as well as inch long pins). The dozer blade is attached to the rear, along with a light and smoke launchers.
The turret hole is covered, and a hatch added, the pintle mount on the hatch fits well into the mounts for the hunter killer missle (IG). I envisioned that some of the tank crew would need to exit, so tread guards were added adjacent to the hatch. The old LR hatch was placed upon the covered engine hold...
The chain was attached to that hatch, and roped around (glued to the rollers, the end hangs free). A wire is attached to the rear to hang the chain on. The dozer begins to get bulked out to be more of a stabilizing plow.
As the atlas has a fine set of overcharged engines and no secondary weapons (just the heavy flamer) the sides were bulked out with plasticard and an exhaust made from a battlecannon. As many assessories as possible weere dug from the bitz box, including handles for the crew to re-mount.
From the back. Most of the plasticard areas were lined with rivets, (brita water filters are awesome!) Carrying hammers, tracks, tow cables, I will name him Aries.
The bottom of what is fondly called "the Beerwagon". It is mostly made from plasticard, with bitz such as; chimera sides, battle cannon, extra tread and wheels, that thing on the baneblade betweeen the hull and the drums (cut in half to make the hookup.)
And a big beer can, of course!
An old skool LR hatch on top (to pour the beer into), a basilisk shield (cause it was lying around). And it hooks up perfect to my trojan...
From the rear platform a commissar will decide who is entitled to beer rations, based on the info from the vox screeens. (note the searchlight pointed down).

The support line, "Booze and ammo!"

Painted pics of Aries soon...

Eldar Skystorm (assembly)

The first step is to destroy 2 falcons, as shown.
This is how it should fit, the "wings" from the centre hull on the front, attatched to the outer hull's "wingtips". The rear of the outer hull gets clipped off at the centre of the turret mount.
How the ineer parts of the engine are cut. This happens to be the easiest part!
The bottoms of the hulls are cut much the same as the upper parts. The outside engines are placed further back, (the second notch on the engine ribbing lines up with the last notch on the inside).
A really blurry shot of the rear end extension. I extended the rear to add summitry, as well as the stabilizing fins.
The bottom of the tank assembled. The additional thrusters from the outside hull fit nicely halfway up the "wings" where they connect. Also, the "gravimetric arrays" positioned on either side close the large gap left from the joining. The nose turret is simply 2 scatterlasers glued to the swivel mount, then covered with the armour plates from the heavy weapon sprue.
The assembled top. The turret was built the standard, with an extension (for summitry) after I added grav ribbing underneath with more card. The guns are pulse lasers with bright lances added, and armour/ammo. The apoc upgrade was used to fill the nasty gap I had on the side from joining the hulls.
Size comparison.
Much green stuff was used to fill the gaps as well as the turret mount which was cut in half. The armour patterns of the hull were duplicated and tied in by drawing lines on the still-wet putty.
The plasticard on the upper surfaces were covered with a thin layer of putty, then the lines added to simulate eldar style. It is now ready for primer!

Welcome to Ricalopia!

So, as a first post I will give you as many good pics of the miniatures in my collection. As comments, criticisms and queries come in, I will try to respond as well as I can. Above is shown my 609th preparing for battle (4,500 points in the old codex).
Front and back pre-painted pics of my atlas "Aries"

The ass end of my hellhound...
Inquisitorial henchmen (giftminis)
Nurgle mushroom Prince (giftmini)
A chaos marine (giftmini)















These are 2 of my Eldar War Walkers, ain't they cute? Also the Anima model I have turned into an Avatar.

Well, until a walk-through on the skystorm super heavy eldar tank,
Ricalope.